Articles about Seattle – Page 35 of 51

Amazon Web Services vet scores $2.8M from Andreessen Horowitz and others for hot Seattle startup Distelli

Rahul Singh spent eight years at Amazon working on key platform technologies that helped power Amazon Web Services through its… Read More

Report: Google in talks to invest in SpaceX, boosting Seattle-based satellite initiative

Google is close to making an investment in Elon Musk’s SpaceX, with the intent of supporting the commercial space company’s… Read More

Seahawks’ miracle win registers ‘close to a real earthquake’ on seismic sensors

The reaction to the Seattle Seahawks’ comeback victory over the Green Bay Packers at CenturyLink Field this afternoon — sending… Read More

Impressions of Seattle from an MBA trekker

When considering where to go on an MBA Technology Trek, Seattle was a no-brainer. It wasn’t just that the city… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Startup Day Warm-Up, Smart Gun Symposium, and more

When Inrix CEO and founder Bryan Mistele left Microsoft in 2004, he thought his startup would be completely funded within… Read More

The Big Apple vs. Rain City: A look at VC investing in NYC and Seattle

California remains the undisputed leader in venture capital financing, accounting for more than half of all VC dollars in… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Deehubs uses building walls for social media platform

Social media is often disparaged as the playground of narcissists or politically self-righteous relatives we try to avoid. But while we could… Read More

Seattle suffering from gentrification? Study says probably not

Gentrification is almost a dirty word in this modern world, basically implying that a neighborhood has lost its charm and diversity,… Read More

App of the Week: Attendible helps find the best events, restaurants and more

On any given day, there’s plenty of stuff going on in Seattle. So how do you find a stand-out event or… Read More

Inside the Seattle Police hackathon: A substantial first step

The Seattle Police Department (SPD) held its first-ever hackathon on Friday. The event was focused on a single problem: How… Read More

Seahawks, Super Bowl and composting: Seattle’s top Google trends for 2014

Yesterday, we told you about Google’s national trends on search. But today, they gave us the lowdown on Seattlelites’ favorite… Read More

Juno Therapeutics sets IPO range at $15 to $18 per share, looks to raise $166M

Fast-moving Juno Therapeutics is moving closer to becoming a publicly-traded company. The Seattle biotechnology company today updated is IPO filing… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Seattle salsa dancers start HurryOut to make it easy to find local events

Digital tools have streamlined services in almost every sector — from daily deals to travel planning to video sharing — but… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: TechCafe and Seattle Angel Conference join forces, 500 Startups Roadshow, and more

TechCafe is merging with Seattle Angel Conference to launch a new series of events for the Pacific Northwest tech community.… Read More

Cloud powerhouse Dropbox reveals plans for Seattle engineering office

[Update: Here’s the official announcement from Dropbox.] Dropbox, the San Francisco-based cloud storage and file sharing company, is planning to open… Read More

Amazon real estate chief dreams of turning company’s parking garages into fulfillment centers

What if alternative transportation in Seattle was so great that Amazon could turn its parking garages into product fulfillment centers? It might… Read More

How Concur nearly landed in Austin, and why co-founder Raj Singh is so glad they picked Seattle

Can you imagine this scenario? Austin, Texas-based Concur, the maker of travel and entertainment expense management software with 4,200 employees worldwide,… Read More

Here’s what homeless people think about Internet access at Seattle’s ‘tent cities’

Homeless people living in the city’s transitional encampments could have access to free wireless Internet service if Seattle City Council approves… Read More

Seattle Police Department cuts deal with records requester to release video footage

The Seattle Police Department has made a deal with an anonymous computer programmer who submitted a massive series of public… Read More

Let it code! Disney’s ‘Frozen’ teams with Code.org to inspire young programmers

There are a lot of coding tutorials out there. But only one that will have kids belting out “Let it… Read More

Zillow looking to nearly double footprint at downtown Seattle HQ

Fast-growing Zillow may be getting a little more room for expansion at its downtown Seattle headquarters. The online real estate… Read More

‘Seattle in Progress’ app maps the city’s future, using permit filings and design proposals

What if you could use a map to see into the future? That’s the idea behind “Seattle In Progress,” a new… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Tackling Ebola with Smartphones; Startup Weekend: Makers Edition; and more

In the U.S., it seems the Ebola scare is subsiding. Craig Spencer, the New York doctor diagnosed with the virus, was determined… Read More

Oh Myyy! George Takei takes on Seattle’s tech scene in new video

Actor-turned-Internet powerhouse George Takei visited Seattle this fall to film an episode of his web series, “Takei’s Take,” exploring various aspects of… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Highlights: Life Sciences Research Weekend, a Crash Course in Crowdfunding, and more

Update: The Startup Weekend Sports event has been postponed to 2015. Between Clint Dempsey’s participation in the World Cup, the Supporters’ Shield victory,… Read More

Zulily CEO Darrell Cavens: What makes Seattle special is that employees stick around

Zulily co-founder Darrell Cavens kicked off the TechStars Demo Day event in Seattle today, telling the entrepreneurs that he was… Read More

From Apple and Alibaba to Salesforce and Splunk: A guide to tech giants with outposts in Seattle

Home-grown tech giants such as Microsoft, Amazon.com, Expedia, T-Mobile, Zillow and Tableau have deep roots in Seattle — important companies… Read More

Apple’s arrival cements Seattle’s status as ‘cloud capital of the world’

This probably shouldn’t come as a surprise, but Apple is being extremely secretive about its new Seattle engineering center. The company… Read More

Meet the Seattle 10: These innovative startups are looking to change the world

Education. Big data. Health. Telecommunications. Clean tech. Seattle is producing groundbreaking startups in a host of industries, generating a crop… Read More

These charts show exactly what’s wrong with Seattle’s startup scene, and what’s right

OK, folks, let’s just stop with the Silicon Valley comparisons. Seattle is not Silicon Valley, nor do we care to be.… Read More